Earthquakes, stress, and strain along an obliquely divergent plate boundary: Reykjanes Peninsula, southwest Iceland

Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth

Volumn 114, Issue 9, 2009, Pages

  Keiding, M ^a   Lund, B ^b   Arnadottir T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ICELAND   (Iceland)

^b UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFTERSHOCK; EARTHQUAKE CATALOGUE; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; EARTHQUAKE SWARM; FOCAL MECHANISM; GPS; MICROEARTHQUAKE; PLATE BOUNDARY; PLATE MOTION; SEISMICITY; STRAIN RATE; STRESS;

EURASIA; EUROPE; ICELAND; NORTHERN EUROPE; REYKJANES PENINSULA; SCANDINAVIA;

EID: 72049106354     PISSN: 21699313     EISSN: 21699356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2008JB006253     Document Type: Article

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